Learning through digital storytelling: interdisciplinary findings
Presentation Abstract: Learning is most effective when students can insert unfamiliar material into a known frame of reference. Telling digital stories does this by injecting students' popular culture into the classroom, and by allowing them to use ...
Integrating Web 2.0 into your online course
Presentation Abstract: Web 2.0 tools such as podcasts, blogs, wikis, and online video have exploded in popularity. Students often use YouTube, Wikipedia and their favorite blogs and podcasts as their primary sources of information. These Web 2.0-dri...
The center can not hold: living, learning and leading in a networked world
Keynote Address. Web 2.0 technology has underwritten a radical redistribution of expertise. Have a question about an ailment? The cost of an automobile? Comparative mortgage rates? Competing theories of religious freedom? Approaches to reading the ...
International group projects using Google Groups
Presentation Abstract: The Web offers unique opportunity for students from around the world to establish communicative relationships with each other. Two academics from Australia and the United States decided to explore its potential for learning an...
Enron unraveled
Presentation Abstract: On the surface, Enron conjures up Churchill's description of the Soviet Union "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." Initially my freshmen Business Ethics students believe they will never figure out what is going on...
Using Moodle/iTunes/CUBE software to create a flexible teaching environment
Presentation Abstract: Importance: The combination of Moodle / Itunes /CUBE software (developed at NJIT) provides an extremely flexible teaching environment where students can participate in the class in either convention face-to-face, hybrid or ent...
Google Earth assisted learning for general studies courses at Stockton
Presentation Abstract: This presentation discusses the use of a relatively new software technology called Google Earth in both a freshman level seminar course and in an upper level seminar course. The software is described along with a brief history...
Previsualization to accelerate anatomy dissection in classroom
Presentation Abstract: Animal dissection is a hands-on training that teaches students not only the identification of structures in vertebral animals but also the fine motor skills of cadaver dissection. A majority of students, however, lack sufficie...
Using student blogs as reflective practice
Presentation Abstract: The progression in the past decade of blogs from personal web journals to a platform for established professionals, corporations and writers has also created opportunities for education. This session looks at the use of blogs ...
Online multicultural field experiences: possibilities, pitfalls, and potential solutions
Presentation Abstract: Teacher educators are required by accreditation standards to provide field experiences for their students in diverse settings in order to prepare them for the realities of todays K-12 schools. This presents a challenge however...